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Topic: Large Wooden Spool Removal (Read 2314 times)

I was hired by Orkin to remove a colony that was living inside a large wooden spool at one of their accounts. They told me the spool came from South Carolina, thanks for the bees Scott! Anyway, just a bunch of guys sitting around watching me get this gentle little colony out.

I wound up combining this hive with a swarm colony that I set a friend up with, that was a lil low on numbers but has an awesome queen laying a tight pattern!!

The colony I removed from this spool had the smallest queen I have ever seen. I thought for sure she would escape from the queen catcher, but she stayed put.

Love the pics bro. Hey I know where that spool came from. What is up with the small swarms this year? I've got two of them myself.

I've caught some good ones and some small ones. The small ones are most likely afterswarms, some of them are so small they need to be combined with other swarms or colonies, like the one I mentioned in this post. It has a great queen but there was like a lb of bees in that swarm. Give me the big swarms anyday, keep those little arse things down in your neck of the woods, G!!! :-D

I don't know why but when I first read the topic I though it said "Large Wooden Spoon Removal" I had to read it just to see where you'd find a large enough wooden spoon for bees to live in or if you were doing the removal with a wooden spoon. LOL. Well, now I get it. SPOOL.

I don't know why but when I first read the topic I though it said "Large Wooden Spoon Removal" I had to read it just to see where you'd find a large enough wooden spoon for bees to live in or if you were doing the removal with a wooden spoon. LOL. Well, now I get it. SPOOL.

I don't know why but when I first read the topic I though it said "Large Wooden Spoon Removal" I had to read it just to see where you'd find a large enough wooden spoon for bees to live in or if you were doing the removal with a wooden spoon. LOL. Well, now I get it. SPOOL.

Michael, now that is the funniest thing, I thought the same thing too. I think there was another post quite sometime ago that had the same thing, where we thought that the title said something different than it did. Do you remember that one? I am pretty sure that it was you.

JP, you gotta stop catching so many swarms and doing so many cutouts, it is interfering with your playtime, hee, hee. Great and beautiful day, Cindi

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